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ThistopicdescribestheavailableOLConnecttasks,whicharecommonlyusedinWorkflowprocesses

inOLConnectprojects(see"WorkflowprocessesinOLConnectprojects"onpage168).

Dataextraction

TheExecuteDataMappingtaskislikelytoappearinalotofOLConnectWorkflowprocesses.Itgen-

eratesarecordsetintheOLConnectdatabasebyexecutingadatamappingconfigurationonadata

source.

Outputcreation

Mergingtherecordswithatemplateisthejobofoneofthefollowingtasks.

TheCreateEmailContenttaskcreatesemailcontentitemsandsendsthemtotherecipient.See"Email

processeswithOLConnecttasks"onthenextpage.

Web

TheCreateWebContenttaskcanhandleonlyonerecordatatimeandreturnsawebpage.See"Web

processeswithOLConnecttasks"onpage174.

TheCreatePrintContenttaskgeneratesasetofPrintcontentitemsintheOLConnectdatabase,butit

isnotanOutputtask.Followingthistask,theCreateJobtaskassemblesPrintcontentitemsintoaPrint

job.TheCreateOutputtaskturnsthejobintoaprintoutputfile.

TheAllInOnetaskcombinesthefourtasksinvolvedinaPrintprocess.Ifaprocess'sonlygoalistocre-

atePrintoutput,thistaskisoftenthebetterchoicebecauseitisfasterandmoreefficient.(See"Print

processeswithOLConnecttasks"onpage172.)

However,sometimesusingtheseparatetasksisinevitable.

ForexamplewhenyouwanttomergejobswiththeMergeJobstask,orwhenPrintcontentitemscre-

atedatdifferenttimesshouldbeputintothesamejob,orwhenthesameextracteddatashouldbe

usedtocreatedifferentkindsofoutput.

TheCreatePreviewPDFtaskgeneratesaPDFpreviewforasinglerecordasfastaspossible.Thispre-

viewistypicallyusedforPDFpreviewsembeddedinwebpages.

PlanetPress Suite Documents

TheCreatePDF/VTtaskcreatesPDF/VTfilesfromaPlanetPressSuiteDocument(createdwithPlan-

etPressDesign).ThisPDF/VTiscompatiblewiththeCreate Print Contenttaskdirectly,withoutthe

useofanOLConnecttemplate(PDF/VTmode).

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